Corporate Event Planner
- Pay Rate: $50 – $65/hour (on W2)
- Contract Length: 12 Months
- Location: Onsite | Spring, TX 77389
Raise is currently hiring a contract team member on behalf of our client. They’re expanding their team to meet growing needs, making this a unique opportunity to work with an industry leader.
Job Overview
You plan and run high-profile corporate meetings, leadership events, and conferences. You’re the trusted advisor senior leaders turn to, from the first idea to the final wrap-up. You manage the budget, the suppliers, and every detail in Cvent so each event runs smoothly. Success means leaders trust you with their most visible meetings.
Responsibilities
- Lead corporate meetings, leadership events, conferences, and special programs from concept through completion.
- Manage event logistics, including venues, registration, travel, hotels, audiovisual (AV) production, catering, and onsite operations.
- Build and run events in Cvent, including event websites, registration, attendee messages, reports, surveys, mobile apps, and onsite tools.
- Advise meeting sponsors and senior leaders on meeting design, attendee experience, and best practices.
- Build project timelines, work plans, and event communications. Lead planning meetings, stakeholder reviews, and vendor calls.
- Manage event budgets, including forecasts, reconciliation, and cost savings, with clear financial reporting.
- Negotiate contracts and manage suppliers to get the best value and service.
- Guide and support onsite meetings and events staff to keep quality consistent.
- Follow client policies, compliance rules, and audit standards, and suggest ways to improve the process.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of corporate meeting and event management, including vendor sourcing, contract negotiation, and production and supplier management
- Expert Cvent skills: event build, registration, attendee tracking, communications, budgeting, reporting, mobile event tech, and onsite operations
- Advanced Microsoft Office skills, plus comfort with Teams, Webex, and Zoom
- Experience managing complex event budgets and financial reports
- Experience supporting executives and high-visibility meetings
- Bachelor’s degree
- Ability to work onsite in Spring, Texas, five days a week and travel up to 30%, in the US and abroad
Preferred
- Certified Meeting Professional (CMP)
- International meetings and events experience
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